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Alright, I'm not hitting the panic button or anything (or the EvE is dying bandwagon) - but you took a legitimate issue (off grid boosting) and brought it on grid.

The concept I like. The execution does make me want to beat my head against a wall.
1. Range - my big problem here is the range. I don't understand why there's an issue pushing it out to 200km or grid. I mean; this really kind of fucks the purpose of most command ships. Other than an eos sitting at 0 on a wormhole, or a vulture in a bunch of slipper petes (nullsec you still use those bastards?) There just isn't a point. I guess you can have a command ship as part of your gate camp now. Throw a couple remote sebos in the midslots since you won't need the extra link space.

2. No passive bonuses. Alright, kind of crappy. They didn't seem particularly overpowered, but ok.

3. Ammo - This kind of seems like ****. Here's why. I trained an alt for 8 months to be a perfect boosting t3/command ship pilot. He's generally off grid for PVE, and on grid for PVP (wormhole stuff). I have no issue bringing him on grid - but it kind of borks his purpose when I have to reload and carry ammo. I'm not a huge fan of this change.

Let me throw something at you - 'we like to make small changes so that we can be directionally correct' - I remember someone at ccp saying that small changes are better when it comes to balances. It feels like you just threw the hammer out on this one. There should have been some kind of discussion because while I DO NOT like off grid links - their revised form just seems awful.

Seriously though, you guys need to get your **** together. Citadels were a huge ******* letdown. 1 bil for something with no asset security (wormhole space) and the functionality of a ******* medium/small POS.

58ish km max range for boosts? What are these boosts for ants?

will the boosting ships get the bonuses or will we be flying around in paper tanked command ships on grid

It's actually not hard at all to catch a dual boxed OGB if you have level 5 sills, virtue implants and a brain.

Hindsight will reveal this change as one of the final nails sealing the end of EVE.

The cancelation of all these secondary accounts used for boosting will not help EVE's bottom line.

The changes will not bring any old players back and as such will have zero positive affects on subscription numbers.

These changes will have little to no effect on large scale warfare, these engagements have more than enough people to have designated on-grid links.

This change will have a negative effect on small gang and solo (single person) pvp. Small gangs dont have enough dedicated people to designate some1 for on-grid boosts, and solo players won't be able to compete or skirmish with a small group without a way to help level the field. These fights will be dumbed down to whoever has more people will win.

I understand CCP only cares about large fights that grab headlines, but I expect solo pvp to continue it's downward spiral, as these changes force everyone into fleets to compete.

I expect a number of these solo or small gang enthusiasts to also cancel accounts. All in all, this change will net a significant loss and cancelation of subscriptions and hurt EVE's overall bottom line.

But hooray that all the carebears will have to find new reasons to cry over their losses.

That's something at least...

Dear CCP

My only adresse to this matter is simply in the realm of faction warfare, how does one fleet booster boost his fleet in a say medium size plex. PLZ do not answer with command destroyers because you are going to add a extra question mark of viability to fleet fighting in medium size plexes, simply on the basis that command destroyers just dont have the ehp to survive a cruiser size fleet fight.

This looks like a nice change and i do belive it will help further balance the game. As it is pretty much a complete overhaul of the mechanic an sp refund would be highly apreciated by those of us not commonly engaging in situations where this new mechanic would be feasible.

It's only useless if they NEVER in all their time in EVE ever try to use Command Bursts, which seems kinda unlikely.

I trained my Leadership skills solely for the passive bonuses, and now that they'll be bonusing Command Bursts I'm actually now training this character for Command Destroyers so I can start using them.

why won't command ships have 200% range boost ? i think command ships should be the top dogs on range and power since they are going to be primary anyway. Isn't it how its now ?

ccpls increase from 100 to 200 %

That last part is problematic for the normal line member ape.

Super links should be stronger than carrier links, carrier links in general should be as strong if not stronger than t3 links (jack of all trades master of none) and I think Command dessie links should (as a dedicated t2 specialist craft) be stronger than t3 links.

Also the mod you're replacing the passive titan bonus with, we can't think of any one specific situation where we'd ever swap out a module on our titan for something that is beneficial to the enemy, probably want to go back to the drawing board. Every slot on a titan currently is like, at max value, there aren't any you'd trade from anywhere to anywhere so expecting Titan pilots to want to drop a mod from any slot at all to give a buff to the enemy fleet is silly


Overall I like the changes, I just feel theres some spots that could use some help and or dont make sense